You can then fire up the previous games and go exploring for those moments." For existing fans, an advantage of being in the cloud is that (if you are ok with spoilers) you can fully explore what-if scenarios, and become aware of events and consequences in our past games that you may not have known were possible. "Moving to the cloud allows players to take their unique world state into any platform (present or future) and even other media. I'm giving you a vacation in deadly places. It was a priority that our fans be able to have their decisions carry forward, regardless of their past or future platform." I'm not sending you guys off to die.
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"We were dealing with a brand new game engine, plus the next generation of consoles. "Very early in the planning of DAI, we began to think about how we were going to address the issue of importing save game files," wrote Dragon Age executive producer Mark Darrah. Dragon Age Keep is the cloud-based tool that will let you customize the world of Dragon Age heading into Inquisition.
With Dragon Age: Inquisition releasing on two platforms, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, that won't benefit from previous iterations, Bioware has announced a new fix that should help moving forward. Even on PC, modders have created save game editors and creators, so players aren't forced to play the first Mass Effect in order to jump into the series.
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Neither platform benefited from having the previous games in the series so Bioware included digital graphic novels with each title, allowing players to experience the major story beats and make decisions as if they had played those games. The company already faced this issue in releasing Mass Effect 2 for PlayStation 3 and Mass Effect 3 for Wii U. The problem Bioware faces in allowing you carry your choices forward is logisitics: how do you get your save data from one platform to another? The backlash against the original ending of Mass Effect 3 is partially because fans were passionate about their previous choices mattering in the grand scheme of things.
It feels like your choices matter, even when those choices boil down to picking between three different colors. Is there something you think we should be reporting on? Email of the magic of Bioware game is continuing your story from one game to the next.